hangman

n.
1. one who executes by hanging,executioner 绞刑吏，刽子手。
△Oth.1.1.34: “By heaven,I rather wouldhave been his hangman.”i. e. the one to hang him. 老天在上，我宁愿做绞死他的刽子手。
△Mac.2.2.29 (25):“As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.”(In Shakespeare's day hanging,which included draw-ing and quartering,was a butcher's job.)好像他们看见了我这一双刽子手一般的血手。
△ Mer.4.1.125: “thehangman's axe，”刽子手的斧头。
2. executioner.i. e. Cupid (Cupid's arrows were “fa-tal”.)刽子手，（指）爱神丘匹德(因为爱神之箭是“要命的”)。
△Ado.3.2.10:“He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid'sbow-string,and the little hangman dare not shoot athim.”他曾经两三次割断丘匹德的弓弦(意即：不坠入情网)，所以那个小鬼头不敢射他。
hangman's: fit for the hangman 该绞死的，该死的。
△Gent.4.4.60 (55): “the other squirrel was stolenfrom me by the hangman's boys in the market-place；”那只小松鼠被市场上那些不得好死的小流氓给偷去了。